In this grammar, Satan functions as the archetype of domination, the figure who fractures the horizontal ontology instituted by God through the imposition of unjust hierarchy and man-made sovereignty.

4-The initiative is described as cultural, social, elite-driven, and citizen-focused, with the broader goal of countering “secularism and social indifference.”

3-The Status Room will involve cultural and administrative agencies, and the public is encouraged to participate in community monitoring groups.

2-Ruhollah Mo’men-Nasab, Secretary of Tehran Province’s “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” headquarters, announced the creation of a “Hijab and Modesty Status Room” and pledged to deploy 80,000 trained personnel.

But Iran is not an ethnic mosaic lacking attachment to a unifying political signifier.

5-What is offered is not peace, but control. Not cooperation, but containment. The region is expected to adapt to Israel’s security doctrine, not the other way around.

4-In this vision, there is no meaningful space for regional peoples and states to exercise sovereignty or protect their territorial integrity from external interference.

3-The proposal for a “new order in the Middle East” is not about collective stability. It’s a strategic redesign that privileges Israeli and Western—especially U.S.—interests.

2-Its strategy is based on the negation of regional sovereignty—undermining the ability of neighboring states to act independently or defend their own interests.

6- What I’m trying to do is to problematize the way the West selectively extends compassion, why some victims are seen as worthy of empathy, while others, particularly Iranians who don’t fit within a liberal framework, are rendered invisible.

5- Of course, I’m not suggesting that the deaths of the inmates are irrelevant.

4- This isn’t just about compassion, it’s about which bodies are made to matter in global discourse. Evin inmates become symbols; others remain collateral, their exclusion part of a broader politics of visibility and erasure.